Oberwart Gunners

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Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 55.2 "  N , 16 ° 12 ′ 34.7"  E

Oberwart Gunners
Logo of the Oberwart Gunners
Club data
Address: Oberwart Gunners
Informstrasse 2
7400 Oberwart
Website: www.gunners.at
Founding year: 1957
League: Admiral Basketball Bundesliga
Venue: Oberwart sports hall
Dress colors: Home games: white
Away games: blue
Home game info sheet: rebound
Title won
Master : 2011, 2016
Runner-up : 1997, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2017
Cup : 1995, 1999, 2005, 2016
Supercup :
European Cup participation
European
Cup Winners' Cup
:
1995/96 (= European Cup) (1S-1N)
1998/99 (= Saporta Cup) (4S-8N)
Korać Cup : 1996/97, 1997/98, 1999/2000
2000/01 (4S-12N)

The Oberwart Gunners, Gunners for short , are a Burgenland basketball club from Oberwart . The club was founded in 1957 as Union Basketball Club Oberwart by Johann Hadek. Alfred Wertner (deceased October 2010) is considered the father of the new Gunners, who made it to the Austrian basketball league . From 1992 to 1995 the team played in the 2nd Bundesliga; continuously in the Austrian basketball league since 1995 .

The club celebrated its greatest successes with the championship titles in 2011 and 2016. In 1997, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2013 and 2017, the runner-up title was achieved. In 1995, 1999, 2005 and 2016 the Gunners won the cup . For 2016 this means the first double in the club's history. In the last 2016/17 season, the Gunners won 27 of 32 games (win rate 84%).

2015/16 season

Entries and exits

Additions: Terrell Evans, Quincy Diggs, Derek Jackson, Christopher Ferguson, Adomas Drungilas, Maximilian Schuecker ( Vienna DC Timberwolves ), Max Neugebauer (studied in the USA)

Departures: Hannes Artner ( Mattersburg Rocks ), Stefan Neudecker, Hannes Ochsenhofer (both Fürstenfeld Panthers ), JJ Mann ( Phoenix Hagen ), Gabe Knutson, Rakeem Buckles, Bogic Vujosevic ( BC Hallmann Vienna ), Carlos Novas-Mateo ( Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions )

during the season: Terrell Evans, Max Neugebauer ( BC Hallmann Vienna )

Squad

Squad of the Redwell Oberwart Gunners in the 2017/2018 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date!
(current season: 2020/2021)
player
No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club
Guards ( PG , SG )
4th AustriaAustria Jakob Szkutta 07/22/1999 180 cm Vienna DC Timberwolves
5 United StatesUnited States Louis Dabney Jr. 01/17/1993 190 cm Tulane University
7th AustriaAustria Sebastian Käferle 09/23/1996 186 cm Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions
10 AustriaAustria Georg Wolf 04/12/1995 185 cm
Forwards ( SF , PF )
6th CroatiaCroatia Edi Patekar 02/24/2000 192 cm
8th AustriaAustria Georg Gentner 04/28/1998 197 cm
9 United StatesUnited States Denzel Gregg 10/28/1995 203 cm St. Bonaventure Bonnies
11 AustriaAustria Paul Schuecker 10/18/1999 193 cm Vienna DC Timberwolves
Center ( C )
5 United StatesUnited States Cedric Kuakumensah 05/16/1993 206 cm
16 United StatesUnited States Renato Poljak April 20, 1997 206 cm
12 AustriaAustria Benjamin Blazevic 12/28/1995 204 cm
Trainer
Nat. Surname position
SpainSpain Lluis Pino Vera Head coach
CroatiaCroatia Goran Patekar Ace coach
Legend
Abbr. meaning
(C)Captain of the crew Team captain
No. Jersey number
Nat. nationality
swell
Team homepage
League homepage
Status: 07/27/2017

Former players

Former trainers

International success

Saporta Cup 1998/99
1st round (group matches: Benetton Treviso / ITA, Unics Kazan / RUS, Aerosoles Ovarense / POR, Den Helder / NED, Odessa / UKR). The team lost in the 1/16 finals 66:92 and 64:92 respectively against the Spanish top team Bruguer Badalona. Oberwart Gunners was the first Austrian basketball club to reach the 1/16 finals in a European cup competition.
European Cup 1995/96
1 round
Korać Cup 1997/98
1st round (group matches: Bonn / GER, Dijon / FRA, Málaga / SPA)
Korac Cup 2000/01
Elimination Round (Trefl Sopot)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Redwell Gunners are runner-up in 2016/17
  2. Table Bundesliga 2016/17
  3. New Head Coach at the Oberwart Gunners, accessed on July 27, 2017